{"id":2799,"date":"2009-04-17T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2009-04-17T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:34:26","slug":"dont-ask-just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/04\/17\/dont-ask-just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ask, Just Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama needs to get honest <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/gates-dadt-repeal-now-a-matter-of-if-not-when-1.php?ref=fp2\">about this<\/a>, and quickly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates poured more cold water on the idea that Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell will be repealed anytime soon. &#8220;If we do it,&#8221; Gates said, &#8220;it&#8217;s very important that we do it right, and very carefully.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, of course, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said, in no uncertain terms, that the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell would be repealed. But the administration&#8217;s been slowly walking that back ever since.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama needs to get honest about this, and quickly: Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates poured more cold water on the idea that Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell will be repealed anytime soon. &#8220;If we do it,&#8221; Gates said, &#8220;it&#8217;s very important that we do it right, and very carefully.&#8221; [ . . . ] Back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[239,506,240,241,126],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","tag-dadt","tag-equality","tag-gates","tag-military","tag-obama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}